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Napa at last light, America's Eden in an age of calamity, James Conaway

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Napa at last light, America's Eden in an age of calamity, James Conaway

Language

eng

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Napa at last light

Oclc number

990006809

Responsibility statement

James Conaway

Sub title

America's Eden in an age of calamity

Summary

Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region

Table Of Contents

I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing -- II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow -- III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival -- IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame -- V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy -- VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown -- VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited

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America's Eden in an age of calamity

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